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Notre Lame…The 2007 Season Revisited
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Aww yes, the pigskins are flying again all over the country…The Thursday through Monday ritual has returned, sitting on the couch scratching and sniffing ourselves to no end, drinking at least a 12-pack or more, (depending on how bad our team is) all the while drowning out the nagging ball and chain who’s nagging our ass like a huge case of jock itch! Yes, ain’t life grand again!
Speaking of drowning our sorrows in a case of Milwaukee’s Best, my question is who had the most tears flowing down their ugly mugs this weekend…And which city got flooded out the most? South Bend, Indiana or the Greater Northeast? Both had great tragic events took place respectively, but which one was the most frightening? Well, since I give a shit about the New England Patriots, I give a rats ass that Tom Brady’s knee looking like a bowl of Shredded Wheat…Besides, he’s a Michigan man anyway! Must say that Daunte Culpepper would be proud though! Hey, I hear he’s looking for a job now…Hell, his "retirement" could be classified as another "graduation". How proud would Junior Seau be of that?
Enough of that shit…While the Fighting Grey Cutoff Hoodies have their issues, in South Bend Charlie Weis has more concerns than the freaking United Nations! For nine months much has been documented about Notre Dame being that doormat of college football a year ago. All summer long the hopes in South Bend were like that of a team contending for a National Championship…Peeps picking the Irish to win 8, 9, maybe even 10 games. All this coming off their worst season in their long storied program…So honestly I questioned the optimism regarding the improvement under the Golden Dome hearing that shit would be different in 08!
Yeah, shit’s different alright…The only thing that’s different is that it is 08, not 07. Just the change of the digits, nothing more. Are you kidding me! A team that lost to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Pattycake Playboy YCMA Waffle House Dairy Queen State just a week ago was within what was a late rally sparked by a fumble at the goalline of falling victim to losing to the mighty SDSU Aztecs. A game that Weis has had nine months to prepare for and all this supposedly great talent on the roster can only eke out a 21-13 victory…Awesome job! Fantastic!
Shit, it took "all everything Jimmy Clausen", (the next Ron Paulus by the way) to go from most of the first three quarters throwing to non-existent receivers and/or Aztec defenders to the fourth quarter finally showing a little life with two final stanzas. Okay, okay, so he didn’t get sacked, and everybody wants to praise that, but Jimminy Christmas lets not kid ourselves and look at the obvious…This was an SDSU defense depleted by injuries, so when you have a bunch of pop-warner kids playing defense, um, hello, of course he’s not going to get touched! That’s what even makes this more alarming…The Aztecs weren’t playing with their B defense, it was more along the lines and combo of their H, I, J, K defense!
It’s interesting, sitting there watching this debacle scratching myself, (hey, gotta do something when you’re bored out of your freaking skull) the question I had is how long will Charlie Weis last? Will he last the season? Of course my question changed to that after ND won, but during the game I was trying to figure out if he’d last the entire postgame press conference!
Okay, I get a win, is a win, but if the Irish is about as good as SDSU, beating Michigan, Michigan State., Purdue, or North Carolina...Well, it’s not happening for sure. Pittsburgh, Washington, Syracuse, there’s hope for you guys…SC will be another massacre. Best case scenario right now appears to be 7-5. And that's stretching it, only if shit gets together. Which I don’t know why it would considering having nine months to prepare for the opener, and nothing has changed in that period of time!
Saturday’s game was shameful and disturbing. The only thing worse would have been if Weis’s Woefuls actually lost. For the second straight year, we look unprepared to play major college football with any semblance of competitiveness. And that's beyond sad.
GO IRISH!
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